Making the case for the right to life of every innocent, from Lake County, Illinois

Sunday, April 17, 2016

How Far Is Far?

What goes ‘round, comes ‘round

By Jean Garton

Dr. Jean Garton

There is hardly an action – no matter how revolting, immoral or
violent – that doesn’t have defenders who will say, “But we can’t really
judge others unless we’ve walked in their shoes” or who will go even
further to charge those who refuse to agree that all things are relative
with intolerant “judgmentalism.”

Other people go further still! They argue that some behavior that
seems unloving to one person may actually be a loving act when someone
else commits it.
Amazingly, one of the latest lines of defense of abortion is to go on
the offensive: adopt that bizarre notion that the act of taking your
unborn child’s life is really an act of love.
Some abortion providers now urge women to write love letters to their
children before aborting them, simultaneously an act of co-opting
criticism and ennobling the ignoble. One such form letter was published
in a city newspaper and began with the words, “Dear Baby….”

“Dear Baby: I believe you will be
better off in heaven. I am not sure I could provide you with a stable
and healthy environment. I do not feel that emotionally or financially I
could care for your every need.

“In forecasting my future, a
dismal and grim picture is all that I can imagine. I hope you can
understand my reasoning and can forgive me. I will see you in heaven.
Love, Mom.”

Women are sometimes coerced into having an abortion to maintain the
love of the father (who more often than not will abandon her after the
child is dead). Others convince themselves that the abortion is done for
the good of the baby, another act of love.
One thing is certain, however, is that it is an instructive act, behavior that sends a message.
For example, what lesson might other children in the family take away
from that violent “solution”? As the years go by, what conclusions do
they gradually come to, based on a decision made many years before?

Imagine that some sixty years have passed since their mother’s
“loving” act of aborting a child. Now a sibling of that aborted child is
writing a “love” letter of her own to their mother. It could go
something like this:

“Dear Mom: I believe you will be
better off in heaven. I am not sure I could provide you with a stable
and healthy environment. I do not feel that emotionally or financially I
could care for your every need.

“In forecasting my future, a
dismal and grim picture is all that I can imagine. I hope you can
understand my reasoning and can forgive me. I will see you in heaven.
Love, your daughter.”

An impossible scenario? Not when you consider the growing trend to
focus on end-of-life issues. Not when the elderly, the infirm, and the
“non-productive” are increasingly viewed as living lives that are too
costly.

Not when our population is living longer and longer. Not when euthanasia is becoming a popular discussion topic.

And surely not when you read story after story of spouses and
children making the “loving” decision to “assist” grandma to commit
suicide.
An abortion decision can be described as “desperate, thoughtless, selfish, or pressured .”
But never, ever call it “love.”

Editor’s note. This story appears on page 18 of the April digital
edition of National Right to Life News. You can read all of the issue
at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsApril2016.pdf. Please be sure to share stories with your pro-life family members and friends.